Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered in October 2017. She was digging deep to expose corruption rotting within Malta’s institutions and beginning t...

On May 29, 2015, the Second Circuit appellate court ended Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's effort to appeal his 40-year prison without parole sentence for o...

Many countries under U.S. economic sanctions are beginning to use cryptocurrency to circumvent bans and evade the global reserve currency model of the United...

The mysterious “Mr. Dark” is no longer mysterious. In mid-March, the IRS indicted Mr. Dark, a Dutch national named Michael Rahim Mohammad. The indictment all...

The pseudo-anonymizing features of cryptocurrency provide a new layer of concealment for criminals involved in money laundering, terrorist financing, the sal...

The anonymizing Tor browser that enabled relatively easy access to the Dark Web was created under the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to advance U.S. national...

The amount of chemicals and additional ingredients to produce drugs exported from China to the United States is expanding. At the same time, U.S. law enforce...

The cryptocurrency was once thought of as a magical anonymity mask for criminals who use cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum for criminal purposes, ...

If there was a dumb and dumber Darwin Award for crypto criminals, it would be given to cryptocurrency money launderers. Because Bitcoin and other cryptocurre...

Under the pseudonymity and decentralization of cryptocurrency’s infrastructure modern-day criminals now often sit comfortably on their living room sofa, sipp...

Spanning five continents lies an underground array of unconnected and encrypted computer servers that store cryptocurrency keys to unlock an immense fortune....

The security of a bitcoin bunker vault offers a lot of asset protection. However, it comes at the expense of immediate access to secured funds. Given the tim...

Bitcoin bunker customers are willing to pay a premium to support advanced layers of security, specialized personnel, military-grade vaults, and abandoned bun...

The crypto custodian industry, more broadly, is also growing. The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has raised concerns about how centralized cryptocurr...

It might have been Sherlock Holmes making one of his signature statements, “There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”...

A February 21, 2018 investigation by Fortune magazine, revealed cryptocurrency seizures are beginning to become routine given its expanding presence in crimi...

Earlier this year the Belgian Government seized about $430,000 worth of Bitcoin during a Dark Web drug trafficking investigation. The Belgian Government succ...

It was a typical day at the Manhattan Times Square Ruby Tuesday’s restaurant when Louis Meza met with a business associate who invested early in Ethereum, a ...

Given the pseudonymity and increasing availability of cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency is becoming more appealing than fiat currency as a response to the deman...

Unfortunately, not all crypto-ransom crimes end with the safe recovery of the victim and successful prosecution of the perpetrators. Sportsbook owner and pro...